Z91.A
Z91.A: Caregiver's noncompliance with patient's medical treatment and regimen
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Z91.A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for caregiver's noncompliance with patient's medical treatment and regimen. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z91.A
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on Z91: Personal risk factors, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead Z91.A
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- Z91.A1Caregiver's noncompliance with patient's dietary regimen
- Z91.A2Caregiver's intentional underdosing of patient's medication regimen
- Z91.A3Caregiver's unintentional underdosing of patient's medication regimen
- Z91.A4Caregiver's other noncompliance with patient's medication regimen
- Z91.A5Caregiver's noncompliance with patient's renal dialysis
- Z91.A9Caregiver's noncompliance with patient's other medical treatment and regimen
Other codes under Z91
- Z91.0Allergy status, other than to drugs and biological substances
- Z91.1Patient's noncompliance with medical treatment and regimen
- Z91.4Personal history of psychological trauma, not elsewhere classified
- Z91.5Personal history of self-harm
- Z91.8Other specified personal risk factors, not elsewhere classified
- Z91.BPersonal risk factor of exposure to diethylstilbestrol